One of the strategies I often use to help my clients get more done is to time their progress to match up to their vacations. Let me explain what I mean. Very often, dissertation students will try and use all of their vacation time as a way to “make up”...

In my dissertation coaching groups, lately, one theme has been coming up- and that is the theme of stuckness. I always believe that whatever is showing up in my small groups is indicative of the larger whole- so I wanted to write a post about what to do when...

Ugh. If I had a dollar for every dissertation student I’ve ever spoken to who could finish their dissertation – but isn’t- I’d be really, really, really rich. This is coming up for me today as I have, again, helped another three graduate...

One of the things I’ve noticed is that when you’ve been away from the dissertation for awhile, it’s more and more difficult to get back to it, isn’t it? And when you finally do make yourself get back to it, you often experience frustration and...

Choosing a Dissertation Topic? You’re not alone. When I work with graduate students, one of the biggest areas they wonder about is choosing a dissertation topic. And why wouldn’t they have a lot of questions? It’s not like this gets addressed much in...

If you’ve been reading my blog or newsletter for a while, you’ll know that I don’t suggest strategies to you unless I have tried them and seen that they work. In many cases, I’ve been my own first case study, noting what works for me, and then,...

Have you ever had a week where you planned to make a huge amount of progress on your dissertation, but then, for whatever reason, life got in the way, and you weren’t able to complete the work you planned? (Yes, of course, right?) So what did you do in that...